Tonight Alive and Greywind

Guitarist Jake Hardy and bassist Cameron Adler already had project together when they recruited then sixteen-year-old Jenna McDougall to form the first version of Tonight Alive. They later added Whakaio Taahi on lead guitar and Matt Best on drums. They spent their first year playing local shows at youth centres around the Sydney area. In 2009, the band decided to record their debut self-funded EP “All Shapes and Disguises” with producers Greg Stace and Dave Petrovic. It was released in June 2010, with their music video and debut single “Wasting Away” being released all in the same month. “Closer” was featured on season six of the US reality TV show The Hills.

It was in 2010 that a demo made it to the desk of producer Mark Trombino, who contacted the band, and proposed to produce their debut full-length album. The band recorded their first album in Los Angeles at NRG Studios over two months. It would be entitled “What Are You So Scared Of?” released on October 14th 2011, in Australia, Valentines Day 2012 in US and September 28th 2012 in the US. It made it to number 15 in Australian album chart, and number 7 in the US Heatseekers chart.

The first single “Starlight”: was released July 1st 2011, the second single “Let It Land” was released on September 19th 2011. They even featured on “Punk Goes Pop 4” compilation CD covering Mumford & Sons hit single “Little Lion Man”. The band has been on numerous tours since, such as the Fearless Friends Tour alongside blessthefall, The Word Alive, Motionless In White and Chunk! No, Captain Chunk.

The band’s sophomore album “The Other Side” was released on September 6th 2013, through Sony and Fearless Records. The first single “The Ocean” premièred on Radio 1 in the UK on July 11th 2013 to coincide with the announcement of the album. In promotion of this album, they embarked on a tour with All Time Low on their A Love like War: UK Tour and a tour with Taking Back Sunday and The Used on their co-headlining North American tour in March 2014.

They contributed their song “The Edge” for Sony and Marvel’s film The Amazing Spider-Man 2and it was featured on the deluxe edition of the soundtrack in Australia, New Zealand, UK and Ireland.